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AMMAN, JORDAN - NOVEMBER 15: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - "ROYAL HASHEMITE COURT / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Jordanian King Abdullah II makes a speech at the parliament building during the inauguration of the new term of the Jordanian Parliament, in Amman, Jordan on November 15, 2021. In his speech, the king gave a message of support to the Palestinians. (Photo by Royal Hashemite Court / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

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Saudi Arabia Is Now Using Diplomacy, Like Sports, to Whitewash Its Image

GAZA CITY, GAZA - APRIL 02: A view of Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on April 02, 2025. Palestinians in Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza are struggling to survive their daily lives in makeshift tents among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks. (Photo by Saeed Mohammed/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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In this aerial photograph, crowds gather to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad in Homs, late on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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Returning to Syria, and My City of Homs, After 14 Years of Exile

$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

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The head of the Ennahdha movement, Rached Ghannouchi, appears before the first investigative judge of the judicial pole for combating terrorism, in order to interrogate him regarding a complaint that was filed against him by one of the security unions in Tunis, Tunisia on February 21, 2023 . (Photo by Yassine Mahjoub/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Tunisia: Release Rached Ghannouchi, Unjustly Imprisoned Political Leader

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A picture shows a general view of the Jordanian Parliament before a session aiming to set a date to discuss the Israeli-Jordanian US-brokered solar power for water "declaration of intent" which was signed in Dubai last month, on December 8, 2021. - The parliament session which aimed, among other topics, to set a date to discuss the US-brokered declaration of intent, was postponed till December 13. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP) (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

Briefing Paper: Jordan's 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

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Tunisia Appointed a Transitional Justice Czar, and Then Imprisoned Her

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My Father Refused to Bow to Kais Saied's Tyranny in Tunisia

Supporters raise up the victory sign next to a giant poster of Kais Saied set up in the street during the celebration of Kais Saied Victory in Tunisia presidential election after an exit poll, on avenue Habib Bourguiba in the capital Tunis, on October 13, 2019. (Photo by Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)

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February 1, 2022

A Tunisian protester faces riot police during a demonstration held on the occasion of the 11th anniversary of the fall of late Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, under a heavy security forces deployment, on Habib Bourguiba avenue in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 14, 2022, to protest against President Kais Saied's power grab.
On July 25, 2021, Kais Saied dismissed the head of government and suspended the activities of parliament. Since September 22, 2021, Kais Saied rules by decrees and took exceptional measures for the exercise of legislative and executive powers. (Photo by Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)

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Saied Is Reviving a Police State in Tunisia

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